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Friday, Mar 22, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, Mar 22, 2002 |
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ISPs Guidelines issued on Net telephony Our Bureau
NEW DELHI, March 21 EXACTLY a month after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) submitted its recommendations on Internet telephony, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued guidelines for Internet service providers (ISPs) to process and carry voice signals from April 1. As per the guidelines, only ISP licensees are permitted, within their service area, to offer such services. Internet telephony has been defined as an application service, which the customers of ISPs can avail from their personal computer (PC) capable of processing voice signals. The scope of service includes: PC-to-PC, PC to phone and IP-based H.323/SIP terminals in India to similar terminals both in India and abroad. Access to the ISP node through the authorised facilities of cable operators shall be permitted subject to the provisions of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation), Act, 1995. The addressing scheme for such communication involving transmission of voice in packetised data format through public Internet will conform to the IP Addressing scheme of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) alone and not the national numbering scheme/plan applicable to subscribers of basic/cellular telephone service, as defined by DoT. The guidelines note that Internet telephone service offered by ISPs is different in nature, scope and kind from the real time voice, offered as telecommunications service by operators such as basic, cellular, NLD, etc., under their existing licence. While no tariff has been levied for Internet telephony, the TRAI may review and fix a tariff any time during the validity of the ISP. The quality of service shall be prescribed from time to time. ISPs desirous of offering Internet telephony services must sign an amendment to the ISP licence agreement to such effect, DoT noted.
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